nursing manpower plays a key role in the quality of care and health promotion. so considering efficient and qualified nursing units is necessary for any health care organization without which they can’t survive long. this study was aimed to estimate the nursing manpower required by the imam khomeini and razi hospitals affiliated with jundishapur university of medical sciences in accordance with...

Compounds intended for marketing by the pharmaceutical industry are tested for possible effects on reproductive processes in much the same way today as was carried out even before November 1961, when the drug thalidomide was related to human malformations. At that time, effects on male and female fertility were sought, but generally only for agents considered likely to alter the endocrinologic ...

The discourses of Antillanité and Créolité are both based on the absence of women. This is more important in the discourse of Créolité since it silences the grandmothers, great aunts and village midwives who are the transmitters of folk tales, folk medicines and oral culture. In the struggle for recognition between Caribbean males and western males folk medicine may be too closely associated wi...

BACKGROUND The heterologous deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) prime-adenovirus (AdV) boost vaccination approach has been widely applied as a promising strategy against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1. However, the problem of inefficient delivery and lack of specificity of DNA vaccine remains a major issue. In this paper, to improve the transfection of DNA vaccine and realize dendritic cell targe...

The glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor is an essential glycolipid that tethers certain eukaryotic proteins to the cell surface. The core structure of the GPI anchor is remarkably well conserved across evolution and consists of NH2-CH2-CH2-PO4-6Manα1,2Manα1,6Manα1,4-GlcNα1,6-myo-inositol-PO4-lipid. The glycan portion of this structure may be modified with various side-branching sugars or ...

M DEFINITIONS Of "man" have been proposed by serious thinkers-proposed with the best intentions to call attention to a feature of man's existence which is crucial, the essence of humanness, as it were . If only man could say what man is, it was felt, man could understand man, and thus achieve Socrates' criterion of wisdom-self-knowledge . And so man has been called a featherless biped, a ration...